Hell is not punishment, it's training.

If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.

If it is raining out, do not walk fast, because it is raining everywhere.

In the mind of the beginner, there are many possibilities. In the mind of the expert there are few.

Take care of things, and they will take care of you.

Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.

The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional activity; we just sit. Whatever happens to us, we are not bothered. We just sit. It is like something happening in the great sky. Whatever kind of bird flies through it, the sky doesn't care. That is the mind transmitted from Buddha to us.